During the premiere of his latest film Lone Survivor - in which he plays Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell - the 42-year-old star blasted the idea that making the movie was even close to being as difficult as training for the military.

Speaking at the AFI Fest earlier this week, he said: "For actors to sit there and talk about, 'Oh, I went to SEAL Training'? I don't give a f*** what you did.

"You don't do what these guys did. For somebody to sit there and say my job was as difficult as being in the military? How f****** dare you, while you sit in a makeup chair for two hours."

The outspoken actor pointed out there's no real comparison, particularly when he and his co-stars get to go to a comfortable hotel room back to their life of luxury.

He added: "I don't give a s*** if you get your ass busted. You get to go home at the end of the day.

"You get to go to your hotel room. You get to order your f****** chicken. Whatever the f*** it is."

Although Mark didn't directly refer to Tom, the Top gun actor's attorney Bert Fields has responded to E! News to clarify what he meant by his original comments.

Bert explained: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record.

"What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes 'that's what it feels like.' As the video shows, he and the lawyer were laughing at his answer, and, when asked in the next question if the situations were comparable, Tom said 'Oh, come on,' meaning of course not.

"Tom is a staunch supporter of our troops and would never say that making a movie was even remotely comparable to fighting in Afghanistan."